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...That Blonde? A friend got her the big break: a chance to play the shyster's house pet in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle. In this tidbit part, she was an instant sensation. Letters came in by the sackful. All asked the same question: "Who's that blonde?" Fox grabbed her back for $500 a week, raised her to $750 a week. She was on her way to the top-when suddenly the bottom fell...
...adequate courts that do exist are inaccessible from March to June to all but the thirty members of the varsity and freshmen teams. Others--be they House players or just poor amateurs--must go to the 25 green-painted asphalt courts, deceptively attractive from a distance. But such surfaces spell death to sneakers ($6.95 a pair) and balls ($2.15 a can) within two hours, and cause high, unorthodox bounces. The fact that the lines have faded with the years is made more annoying by the balls' friendly, blending shade of green. Since both ball and line are invisible, "take...
...only gray spot on the scene is dirty snow. Munro has put his squad outside only twice, both times on the asphalt parking lot in front of Briggs Cage--"about the worst conditions imaginable," according to Munro. The rest of the time the varsity has done stick work in the Cage and run laps. "Skillwise we're ahead of last year," he says, "but conditionwise, who can tell...
...funds for years. Karamanlis moved in briskly, scraped together a budget, and in 2½ years built and resurfaced hundreds of miles of roads, brought water to thousands of acres of reclaimed land through dam and irrigation projects, replaced his native Salonika's ancient cobblestone streets with asphalt. On inspection trips he often sat down with the work gangs and shared their cheese and olives. What was even more unheard of, he clamped down on contractors, docked them if they delayed construction beyond their contracted completion date, threatened with jail those who tried to get away with shoddy materials...
What O'Keeffe wanted to do included huge bee's-eye views of blossoms, asphalt cityscapes, white skulls and pelves set against hard blue Southwestern skies, and -lately-such stark, sun-filled abstractions as From the Plains. Under the sheltering cape of Alfred Stieglitz, whom she married, O'Keeffe developed a diamond-hard pride and a head-on style. Both helped her become one of the strongest, though not deepest, individualists in American painting...